Turbomaster

The Turbomasters are an Autobot subgroup from the Generation 1 continuity family.

The Turbomasters are a group of Autobots whose engines become powerful artillery pieces. They're at the forefront of the battle against the vicious Decepticons in any fight. Their Decepticon counterparts are the (mostly) aerial Predators.

The Turbomasters include...

• Thunder Clash (leader)
• Rotorstorm
• Boss
• Flash
• Hurricane
• Scorch

There is also an unmade Turbomaster, Hyperdrive.

Fiction

Predator Air Attack!

Breakneck returned to the Turbomasters' base, warning them of an imminent attack by the Predators. The Turbomasters and Predators engaged in smaller skirmishes as Skyquake and Thunder Clash locked optics from across the battlefield. Suddenly...! Predator Air Attack!

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Flash, Boss, Hurricane, and Scorch were members of the underground resistance cell led by Blaster and Perceptor during the Age of Internment. The Age of Wrath Pt.2 They were aching for action, but Perceptor held them in reserve as his Dimensional Interface Assembly was searching for Optimus Prime after he disappeared in a Space Bridge accident. He hoped to send the Turbomasters to retrieve Optimus once the long-lost Autobot leader was found. The Age of Wrath Pt.3

Wings Universe

When the new Golden Age reached Cybertron, the team of Flash, Boss, Hurricane, and Scorch spent five stellar cycles stamping out lingering Decepticon hot spots around the galaxy. Scorch, nicknamed "The Turbomaster", left them at Optimus Prime's request to lend support to the Autobots dealing with the Decepticon Syndicate on Earth. Scorch's Wings bio

Ask Vector Prime

In Primax 092.0 Beta, the Turbomaster Hyperdrive succeeded Optimus Prime as leader of the Autobots after the Matrix of Leadership was passed to him. Despite this, Hyperdrive had a hands-off approach to the war, allowing Thunder Clash to make tactical decisions down in the trenches. Nevertheless, he took to the battlefield against Skyquake in his Apex Armor. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/16

Toys

The Transformers

Boss

• Known designers: Andy Couzens (Hasbro), Takio Ejima (TakaraTomy), Masakatsu Saito (concept artist)

The Turbomasters were part of the final year of products in the original Transformers toyline in European, Australian, and Canadian markets. (Thunder Clash was also released in Japan in late 1992 in European packaging with some legal-info stickers in Japanese added to it, as one of the earliest ancestors of Takara's twenty-first century "USA Edition" imprint.) The team were considered the "headliners" for that year; Thunder Clash is presumed to be the new leader of the entire Autobot faction in fact, though Europe/Australasia was a little liberal when it came to handing out "Leader" Functions and "10" Ranks.

The team's central unifying gimmick is powerful spring-loaded missile launchers that become engines/turbines in vehicle mode. These launchers use pretty small projectiles, which means they would never ever pass U.S. safety standards. While the two larger molds did see U.S. releases (as other characters), every release has either neutered the launchers or altered them to fire much larger, choke-gate-test-passing ammunition.

In at least France, the Netherlands, and Belgium, the Turbomasters were referred to as Canon Masters.

The four smaller Turbomasters were released without any notable changes in Takara's Operation Combination as the "Road Corps," a completely different set of characters.

Notes

Foreign names

• Japanese: Turbomaster (ターボマスター Tābomasutā)
• Dutch: Canon Master^[1]
• French: Canon Master (Europe)
• Italian: Turbomaster (no plural-"s")

References